You know the ones I mean: you know the songs forwards and backwards and you've loved them forever. They instantly take you to your happy place, despite the shitty circumstances you're in.I was lucky enough to have it happen twice yesterday - both times in the car. Like many of us, I'm freaking out about money. I've been a stress case, and not very fun company at holiday gatherings (although I t
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It's that 13 part series on the Sundance channel where Elvis Costello interviews a different celebrity and talks about music. I'm really into it. Elvis is super smart (which we knew) but he's also great at interviewing people. In the episode I watched (via DVR) last night, he talked with Bill Clinton about the role music played in his life - from playing in the school band to listening to music
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I hate to get all Craigslist on here but I have a futon covered in blood that I need to unload fast. Just kidding. I actually have two tickets to the We Are Scientists show at the El Rey, July 1. I can't go. They're $25 each (after all the ticketmaster fees), it's general admission, starts at 8 pm. Anyone want to buy them off me?
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The other day, I heard a lyric from a very old Rolling Stones song as "Here come old flat top, he come grooving up slowly." If I heard that right, then the Beatles must have been referencing it years later when they wrote "Come Together." And I was reminded that it's just cool when an artist sings another artist's lyrics verbatim, or mentions the artist by name in a song (especially when it's sna
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A good friend from high school died this week. He had an amazing mind and very sweet soul. Friends are flying to our home town from across the country to attend his funeral and I'll probably leave in the next few days. But in the meantime, I'm thinking about him constantly and feeling very old. He loved "Big Lizard" and all the songs on this album. He used to type the lyrics in typing cl...
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Billboard.com, MTV.com and Pitchfork are reporting about an eerie obsession Heath Ledger had with Nick Drake, the singer who died young in 1974. Nick Drake is well known to have suffered with depression and died of an overdose of anti-depressant medication.http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003700068Ledger directed a black and white video for the song "Black E
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